A Sung Definition of the Turing Machine

As I feel the ground-breaking concept of the Turing Machine as well as its discoverer Alan Turing have not been sufficiently appreciated either in the scientific community or by the world's population in general I have decided to render the definition of that seminal idea as a hymn to make it more conspicuous and easier to remember.

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[Entertainmentwf]

@beckett1939 Turing is the father of computer science... *face palm*. Turing defined the Turing Machine to show that the universality of mathematics when it comes to Hilbert's decision problem is unattainable forever. The model of the Turing Machine was the very tool he used to make of the first real computers because, the Turing Machine gave a real formal way of using algorithms outside of the axiomatic view and in pure computational means. *points at Turing paper on Computable Numbers*

[PiratesVersusNinjas]

I always forget the transition function :(

[beckett1939]

Of course we do not dare anything. Perhaps I am wrong, it was Turing who invented a theoretical hypothetical thing. As for daring anything from the British people... see Orwells september 1944 article and you know what I think and owe to the British marvelous integrity. It makes me think about trustworthiness of anything British of those times and shortly after that i read and, among others, if Turing in fact invented anything. Period.

[beckett1939]

I may accept talking about someone moving the thing forward. I only demand that true inventors shall be given priority and chapeau bas'es. Secondly, Turing might have also turned to British government to respect these inventors at that time. He knew, did he. I mean, he knew there was a policy of disrespect to anythin g Poles did because they are enemies of unkle joe. They were on his turf. Did not they? I am PO voter by the way, not that they are much better than PiS nowadays.

[beckett1939]

Reyevski and Zygalski machines were those first computers or computing bombs, they did not take credit for what they did because of Churchills love to lesser devil, Uncle Stalin. After discovery of Katyn massacre in which NKVD murdered most the elite of Polish society, Poles were not credited for anything. Turing elaborated on their development of computing machines. Period.

[diezweiundderzufall]

i think you misunderstood something: the turing machine isn't the one that was used to crack the enigma...

[beckett1939]

Turing Machine.... maybe it is Reyevski and Zygalski machine... the two Poles designed bombs to decode enigma in the 30s but pro uncle Joe propaganda deleted them from Western history.

[AnthonyBono]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-PRRRRIIIIIIMM­MMMMMME!

Lovely. More please.

[setaitransmedia]

amen!

[HypovolemicShock]

Wonder what Alan Turing would say hearing you preaching? He might like it! However, ask anyone who think they can sing better than you, they might say this leads to a hypovolemic shock. I on the other hand, would keep away from things like simple abstract computational devices intended to help investigate the extent and limitations of what can be computed. That would in the end give me a hypovolemic shock. Not your singing. Keep up the good work, whichever you choose in the future!